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 09:47 | 24/Feb/2009 |
| Sorry, no house for you! | |
| The incident that I am about to narrate happened one Sunday morning in Chennai. A shabbily dressed young man of about 25 (he was shabbily dressed not because he didn’t have a good dress sense but because he was of the opinion that on Sundays, everyone should free themselves of all shackles, and that included pressed shirt and pants) rang the door b...
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| 09:53 | 31/Dec/2007 |
| Modi, a hero | |
| Though I also operate within the realms of Indian English media, though I am aware of its “pseudo-secular” credentials, I was baffled by the kind of lop-sided, anti-Modi coverage of the Gujarat elections, especially in the electronic media. The English newspapers and news channels declare themselves as “unbiased and secular” while they act as if th...
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| 08:20 | 16/Jul/2007 |
| Modern day heroes | |
| It has been a week since the US warship USS Nimitz left the shores of Chennai but I am still disturbed. No, I am not thinking about the alleged nuclear emission or the shameful way with which India prostrated and still prostrates in front of the US. I am only thinking about what the sailors did in Chennai. What disturbed me the most was the hysteri...
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| 22:48 | 25/Jun/2007 |
| Che Guevara- cool dude? | |
| It was by accident that I chanced upon a beautiful book titled “My Father’s Notebook”. The book was written by Iranian author Kader Abdolah in Dutch and translated wonderfully into English by Susan Massotty, whose most famous translation is “The Diary of Anne Frank”. Kader Abdolah is not the author’s real name; the book says it is a pen name create...
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| 23:19 | 28/May/2007 |
| Rajni, the enigma | |
| Till I came to Chennai from Kerala, I had only heard of the kind of hysteria Rajnikanth generates among the public but when I really saw it, I found it quite puzzling. I could only look at the unadulterated, unabashed admiration, love and worship of a film actor with surprise. But despite my repeated efforts, I have not been able to interview him s...
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| 23:38 | 22/Feb/2007 |
| Of Cabbages and Men | |
| One afternoon about two years ago, when I saw Pandian, a handicapped vegetable vendor, he was almost in tears. His small wooden booth, straddling the pavement was full of fresh, bright vegetables. Unsold vegetables. Until then, his shop used to be almost empty by afternoon. On his two-wheeler, Pandian used to ride to the main market at Koyambedu ea...
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| 08:50 | 7/Feb/2007 |
| The Sun never sets | |
| I love the sea, the waves, the sand and the beach in their entirety. It is bewildering to look at the sea as it makes me feel very small but it also makes me inexplicably happy. I think I am passionately in love with the vastness and the complexity of the sea. I am also scared of it. Still, I love playing with the waves and staring at them for hour...
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| 14:08 | 14/Jan/2007 |
| Whose land is this anyway? | |
| It was in the early eighties that I first visited the North East of India. I had the good fortune to spend a few days in Guwahati too then. As a youngster, that visit was a kind of an eye opener to me; a bit of shock too. The first shock I received was from a co-passenger in the Tinsukia mail, an Assamese working in a bank. That was the time dissen...
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| 22:59 | 16/Oct/2006 |
| Growing up with "Swami and Friends" | |
| “It was Monday morning. Swaminathan was reluctant to open his eyes. He considered Monday specially unpleasant in the calendar. After the delicious freedom of Saturday and Sunday, it was difficult to get into the Monday mood of work and discipline. He shuddered at the thought of school; that dismal yellow building; the fire-eyed Vedanayagam, his cla...
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| 10:12 | 12/Oct/2006 |
| Homsexuality, a crime? | |
| A friend of mine and I had an argument recently. It all started with a letter drafted and signed by people like Amartya Sen, Vikram Seth, etc. It was a signature campaign to repeal Article 377 of Indian Penal Code that makes homosexuality a crime. The man who drafted the letter wrote in a paper, “As a gay Indian one always feels like an outsider, o...
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| janus janus | 19:07 | 23/Feb/2009 |
| Friends: (358)
| City: Mumbai
| Interests: Yoga, music, cook...
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| Weekend blues |
| Gosh, my back’s creaking with all the weekend activity. Sometimes I think weekends are more hectic than the other days, since the various chores, minor and major, are usually pushed to the weekend for lack of time. So you hurtle from point A to point B, wondering when the much-awaited R&R would begin. I recall the time when the 2-day weekend was co...
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| kishore gupta | 19:35 | 14/Jan/2009 |
| Friends: (403)
| City: Thiruvananthapuram
| Interests: all beautiful thi...
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| Year End Laughs -: ) ) ) ) ) ) |
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| Let me know if you did not laugh at all... v A man teases his ex-wife's new husband: So, dude how was the second-hand stuff? New husband: Not bad. After the first 3 inches, she was brand new.v Failure is not when ur girlfriend leaves you... It's only when u leave her a virgin.v A hilarious spelling mistake behind a truck, sayi...
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| K.R.Karthik | 02:40 | 12/Aug/2007 |
| Friends: (9)
| City: Chidambaram
| Interests: Music, Business, ...
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| Aadavari Matalaku Ardhale Verule |
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| Whats that?? Atleast the title is not tamil, hindi or english?? Its thelatest (i saw it two days back but was released 100 odd days back)telugu movie directed by Selvaraghavan (our own tamil director) knownas Sri Raghava in Andhra.. Venkatesh, Trisha, Srikanth have performedin the movie.. Whats so special to write abt that movie??Selvaraghavan's mo...
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| Krishna Reddy | 00:25 | 8/Nov/2008 |
| Friends: (335)
| City: Mumbai
| Interests: Art of Living, Sw...
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| Ganesh Festival 2008, Mumbai |
| Ganesh immersion 2008 in Arabian sea at Girgaon Chowpatty beach, Marine Drive, Mumbai. This is the first movie from my new Sony handycam. Its a cool model with 40x optical zoom! (digital zoom is 2000x). It has a cool 30 GB hard disk, so no hassles of video cassette or DVD! I posted this video originally at my other blogLabels: Bal Gangadhar Til...
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| Siddhu Warrier | 00:39 | 1/Mar/2006 |
| Friends: (1)
| City: Edinburgh
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| Falling off Goatfell - the Trip to the I... |
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| We landed in Arran in due time. A few lingering suspicions I had of whether I had actually docked in France by mistake were dismissed when I realized I could understand what the blokes on the shore were mouthing (unless of course the French had seen sense at long last and decided to switch to English). Arran is a huge island, and does not have as m...
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| Rupali Nimkar | 11:54 | 27/Oct/2008 |
| Friends: (9)
| City: Thane
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| Remove the tainted glasses and see the r... |
| In last one week Mumbai bore the brunt again! Violence, hatred and life coming to a standstill! The media cried out that Raj and his party is goonda. That Mahrashtra has become intolerant to its own country men! That Marathi’s are backward people meting out a secondary treatment to its own countrymen. The leaders from North like Laloo, Mulayam, Nit...
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| Jahan Bakshi | 13:36 | 26/Jan/2009 |
| Friends: (204)
| City: Sibsagar
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| Review: Slumdog Millionaire |
| All the talk of the film's 'poverty porn' and obsession with garbage and faeces is just that- crap. Not nearly a masterpiece, Boyle's film is uplifting, buoyant and celebrates life and BollywoodOriginally published on NOWRUNNING.COMIs there anything really left to say about Slumdog Millionaire? It's been described in every way possible, from extrao...
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| Sonu Katha | 19:29 | 4/Aug/2008 |
| Friends: (539)
| City: Dubai
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| Are Your Top People Ready To Leave You? |
| How can I tell if my best employees are getting ready to leave?Why would they want to leave?How can I keep them?This article looks at how to tell if you're in trouble, and what to do about itTop 10 Clues Your Best Employees are Leaving * They start dressing better * They take lunches at different times * Their production drops off * Th...
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| Sabarinath Nair | 19:35 | 12/Dec/2008 |
| Friends: (71)
| City: Chennai
| Interests: Nature Photograph...
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| Games Indians Play - Book Review |
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| Though the first few pages may make one think that this is yet another Indiabashing book by yet another Indian, Games Indians Play Why we are the way we are is a book which goes beyond an attempt to understand the sorry state of affairs in our motherland. The author V Raghunathan uses Prisoners Dilemma, Game theory and Behavioural Economics to expl...
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| Nandan Newla... | 01:20 | 22/Aug/2007 |
| Friends: (73)
| City: Cochin
| Interests: read write arithmet
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| SAND |
| im never myself and never for myselfand that was why i had dug down the sandfor some short messagesthe bucket was deepand the sand mostly dryi took it out one after otherbucket in hand i emptied my messagesand my world went tring tringno one knew where i had hidsuch was the load of unread messagesi was dog tiredbut i still tried and tried to keep t...
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| Kumar Krishnan | 18:35 | 2/May/2006 |
| Friends: (29)
| City: Manila
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| The greatest salesman in the world |
| Reproducing a blog of Bharat Chopra on the bestseller "The greatest Salesman in the world" by Og Madino.He has summarised it very well. Happy reading!Everyone, whether they realize it or not, is in sales. Not necessarily as a revenue chaser, but each of us are eternally trying to influence others and affect outcomes in favor of our causes. A few ye...
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| Dheeraj Khanna | 21:15 | 19/Aug/2007 |
| Friends: (345)
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| The Bourne Series...... download now!! |
| The Bourne Ultimatum has turn out to be huge this summer in Hollywood. So I thought, why not give a tribute to that great spy-master Robert Ludlum who created Bourne and made him a delicious character, an anti-thesis of James Bond.So I give you the The Bourne Trilogy. Now available for download.Go ahead, get ready for a thrilling ride.Downloand the...
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| kishore lakk... | 15:21 | 20/Apr/2007 |
| Friends: (275)
| City: Hyderabad
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| GOOD WIFES |
| Hello friends after a long long long time iam back to you all. I missed u all aloooot but conditions are like that for me.This blog is a general blog and especially women should not take it as a serious one because i just read this one from one of the newspaper.How to get a nice wife! There are times in a person's life when he needs to take crucia...
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| Gurmeetsingh... | 13:19 | 26/Aug/2007 |
| Friends: (243)
| City: Mumbai
| Interests: Swimming, Thinkin...
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| Success in Interviews - II |
| Wednesday, August 21, 2007Success in Interviews - part II Friends,Thank you for your kind words. I feel motivated to keep sharing. I also feel fortunate that at this young age of 36, I can devote so much of my time for the benefit of deserving people. Do share the messages to your other friends, as well, so that they also benefit. I shall also past...
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| jiya jiya | 12:21 | 9/Sep/2008 |
| Friends: (53)
| City: Ahmedabad
| Interests: writing
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| books |
| Your favorirte books and why ????
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| suresh sugav... | 15:33 | 4/Oct/2008 |
| Friends: (164)
| City: Chennai
| Interests: stamp collecting,...
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| ANYBODY TO HELP ME ON TOPIC ESSAY WHERE THERE IS A WILL THERE IS A WAY200 WORDS
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| Shivaja V | 20:57 | 22/Feb/2009 |
| Friends: (103)
| City: Baroda
| Interests: Reading, writing,...
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| I dedicate this blog to my aniyan (younger brother) on iland, Madhu who can spin a blog easily with a " word" as the main theme. Its a poor imitation, I hope you bear with me. J I am in a frisky mood. Nay, no spirits to keep me high. Simple things do that to me. I jump around and sing "ABCD Chettan kedi, Aniyan pedi, Adi Pidi Idi ..."My da...
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| Thohe Pou | 20:10 | 11/Dec/2008 |
| Friends: (879)
| City: Pune
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| Christmas Celebration after 15 years |
| Dear Friends,I am little excited as I will be going to my hometown (village) for Christmas Celebration after 15 years (ie after 1992) but I am also little sad as I will find no my mother as I go to my village.A home without a mother tends to change from home sweet home to teary home. However I pray that God may give me His love and joy to celebrate...
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| kishor Jagirdar | 12:35 | 18/Dec/2008 |
| Friends: (131)
| City: Bangalore
| Interests: adventure sports,...
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| Real life Story of inspiration |
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| Request: Please read the entire story...STORY NUMBER ONEMany years ago, Al Capone virtually owned Chicago.Capone wasn't famous for anything heroic. He was notorious for enmeshing the windy city in everything from bootlegged booze and prostitution to murder.Capone had a lawyer nicknamed 'Easy Eddie.'He was Capone's lawyer for a good reason.Eddie was...
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| Prabhjot Suri | 15:43 | 2/Sep/2007 |
| Friends: (26)
| City: Delhi
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| Television and Children |
| I think that television is entertaining and a brain killer and also an educator at the same time.Everything has its two sides so i go with the statement that tv has pros and cons.TV IS THE MOST WONDERFUL THING INVENTED AND YES IT HAS ITS PROS AND CONS.Television, our most precious and valued thing that we rush over to when we get home has turned in...
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| Rinky Bansal | 16:44 | 6/Sep/2008 |
| Friends: (93)
| City: Mumbai
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| As I wait by... |
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| Hey, folks...returned to iland after a lonnnnnnnng break. Here's some of my creation in an idle state :)....you should know by nowhow fragile I feel without u not around.As I lay in this hospital bedFeeling lonely even with all the friends aroundDon't know feel lostWithout your caring touch, your soft looksyou should know by nowI’m sick of feeling ...
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| greengrass | 16:06 | 20/Feb/2009 |
| Friends: (551)
| City: Bangalore
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| Sri Sri Ravishankar - ”இந... |
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| From www.manakkudiyan.com : I think some body in this nation understands my tears, pain of my heart …. Still tears flowing down my cheeks.. But mouth murmurs.. “Vidivu varum!” - Manakkudiyan -------From : Andan Vikatan : ரம்மி 91;மான நந்தவĪ 5;ங்Ĩ...
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| Payal Mehra | 18:10 | 15/Nov/2007 |
| Friends: (743)
| City: Baroda
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| Yesterday Today & Tomorrow |
| There are two days in every week we should not worry about, two days that should be kept free from fear and apprehension.One is yesterday, with its mistakes and cares, its faults and blunders, its aches and pains.Yesterday has passed, forever beyond our control. All the money in theworld cannot bring back yesterday. We cannot undo a single act wepe...
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| Dr Namrata | 12:37 | 10/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (31)
| City: Delhi
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| The "DATE RAPE" |
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| Drug-Facilitated Sexual Assault(WARNING AND DISCLAIMER: The readers are advised to apply their common sense after reading this article and behave responsibly. However, I am not responsible if someone picks a tip from the article and uses it with criminal intentions. Care has been taken to keep some portions and the names of the drugs ambiguous, to ...
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| Rishi Sharma | 09:37 | 22/Aug/2007 |
| Friends: (19)
| City: Agra
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| Headless Chicken |
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| HEADLESS CHICKEN..........................Ronen Sen used this term for the members of the parliament who are opposing the 123 AGREEMENT for the sake of OPPOSING only. You know what, if today the ruling party says that Sun rises from the east then Opposition party will start their march towards the seat of the speaker demanding VOTE on the matter an...
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| siddhartha m... | 16:38 | 13/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (563)
| City: OUTER SPACE
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| A JOURNEY COMES TO AN END IN LIFE |
| Dear friends,Time has now come to say goodbye to you all. My spaceship from my planet has arrived.Like every good thing in life,this stint was also temporary in nature.I knew all along that I will have to go one day but it was difficult to reconcile in mind.But what to do?Our life is like that.When I first joined this I land ,I was not knowing much...
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| ansul sahu | 22:16 | 29/Jul/2007 |
| Friends: (157)
| City: Raipur
| Interests: Alwayes MASTI.
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| Taj Mahal - The Symbol of Love & Beauty |
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| If there is any monument associated with love, passion and glory, it is undoubtedly the "Taj Mahal". Taj Mahal is not only the pride of a nation with more than one billion people, but also it highlights the glory of Mogul art and architecture. Above all, it is regarded as the symbol of love.Shah Jahan, the fifth Mogul emperor, built Taj Mahal in me...
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| anuvij | 14:35 | 8/Dec/2008 |
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| City: Mumbai
| Interests: Life as a whole
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| LOVE |
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| love is the first morning ray that dispels all darkness away.
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| SHAKTI | 12:13 | 3/Oct/2007 |
| Friends: (16)
| City: Cuttack
| Interests: music,playing
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| GANDHIJI |
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| GANDHIHe is the pride of our nation.He is one and only the father of our nation.He was always tried to removed our country from the cruel forigners.He was always told us for peace of our country.We don't forget them because he has taken a mezor part of our freedom.We always proud for him.RAGHUPATI RAGHAB RAJA RAM,PATITPABA SITA RAM.ISWAR ALLA TERE ...
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| Ashok Kumar | 16:19 | 20/Aug/2007 |
| Friends: (81)
| City: Bangalore
| Interests: Watching TV,Music
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| Very Witty |
| A wealthy man decided to go on a safari in Africa. He took his faithful pet Dachshund dog along for company. One day, the dachshund starts chasing butterflies and before long the dachshund discovers that he is lost. Wandering about, he notices a leopard heading rapidly in his direction with the obvious intention of having lunch. The dachshund think...
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| vivek | 10:59 | 13/Feb/2009 |
| Friends: (167)
| City: Baroda
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| i want to hug u shahjadi, lissome lizar... |
| hello, shahjadi ...aka lissome lizard,,Yes i want to hug u ,,seriously. i am not here to make fun of u .U r suffering from mental anguish and u r taking it too far so as to disturb the one person in the world and that is you only. if u dont heal urself now , u may be scarred for life , which could lead to serious problems in your life. if u think t...
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| saravanan | 16:06 | 26/May/2008 |
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| City: Chennai
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| BACK to homeland |
| Dear friends,I am back to India after a short stint in Singapore.Initially while landing at the airport it was pitiable comparasion but after some weeks I was back to normal.Everrything became normal and began to like my country once again.One loves his homeland more after such abroad stints.Challenge is more exiting here than to survive in a land ...
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| Neeraj Sonwani | 13:05 | 13/Nov/2007 |
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| City: Kanpur
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| Tere dar se hoke majboor |
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| Chah ke bhi hum tumhein na bhul payenge, Har waqt khwabon mein aakar tumhein satayenge, Agar karoge koshish bhulane ki to Tumhari kasam ..... Tumhari baahon mein hi "ZEHER" khayenge.......
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| Writing Village | 12:14 | 12/Sep/2008 |
| Friends: (501)
| City: Gerrards Cross
| Interests: Writing
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| The Fallen Hero |
| At a fundraising dinner for a school that serves learning disabled children,the father of one of the students delivered a speech that would never be forgotten by all who attended. After extolling the school and its dedicated staff, he offered a question:"When not interfered with by outside influences, everything nature does is done with perfection....
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| megs k | 14:32 | 13/Oct/2008 |
| Friends: (41)
| City: Bangalore
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| When Responsibility Comes Knocking |
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| It's a common scenario,(i guess especially in India) where parents work hard for their kids, to provide them with the best of everything. We see to it that our kids get an environment of total comfort, so that they can concentrate on their studies and work towards making their future bright. There are millions of channels through which we get advic...
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| sunil | 05:22 | 21/Nov/2007 |
| Friends: (134)
| City: Delhi
| Interests: smile with joy.
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| KASAM Main peeta tha , usne chhuda di apni kasam dekar, Mahfil me baitha to yaroon ne pila di uski kasam dekar. SWEET SMILE...............
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| Mukesh Soni | 16:55 | 7/Oct/2007 |
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| City: Jaipur
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| Bigge Honth Older version |
| Hi, Friendswhat is happening in these days that if you have songs which has good sound and track but the lyrics are not such that you sing it in the exact manner the songs is be. so here is my new creation to all of you who has problem in singing Emran Hashmi Song :"Bigge Honth Tere" you might have heard the song"chandan sa badan chanchal chitawan...
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| satyendra sahoo | 22:38 | 9/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (205)
| City: Delhi
| Interests: Music,cricket,bus...
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| Beware of Airlines!! |
| Lufthansa Airlines Passengers on a Lufthansa flight heard this announcement from the captain:"Ladies and Gentlemen, I am sorry to inform you that we have lost power to all of our engines and will shor...
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